podzol
Sign in to savePodzols, also known as podosols, spodosols, or espodossolos, are the typical soils of coniferous or boreal forests and also the typical soils of eucalypt forests and heathlands in southern Australia. In Western Europe, podzols develop on heathland, which is often a construct of human interference through grazing and burning. In some British moorlands with podzolic soils, cambisols are preserved under Bronze Age barrows.
Key facts
- Soil.name
- Podzol
- Soil.alternative_name
- Podsol, Podosol, Spodosol, Espodossolo
- Soil.image
- Podzol.jpg
- Soil.image_size
- 250px
- Soil.image_caption
- The picture is of a stagnic podzol in upland Wales, and shows the typical sequence of organic topsoil with leached grey-white subsoil with iron-rich horizon below. This example has two weak ironpans.
- Soil.horizons
- H: common O: always, has humified organic matter mixed with minerals A: absent in most boreal podzols E: common, is ashen grey and leached in Fe and AlB: always, receives Fe and Al through illuviation C: common
- Soil.classification_system
- WRB, USDA soil taxonomy, others
- Soil.parent_material
- quartz rich debris and sediment
- Soil.profile
- O(Ah)EBhsC
- Soil.code
- PZ
- Soil.process
- podzolization
- Soil.climate
- humid continental, subarctic, oceanic, equatorial
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Term
- Characteristics
- Geographic distribution
- Podzolization
- Preconditions
- Key steps
- In different soil classification systems
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Podzols, also known as podosols, spodosols, or espodossolos, are the typical soils of coniferous or boreal forests and also the typical soils of eucalypt forests and heathlands in southern Australia. In Western Europe, podzols develop on heathland, which is often a construct of human interference through grazing and burning. In some British moorlands with podzolic soils, cambisols are preserved under Bronze Age barrows.
== Term == Podzol means "under-ash" and is derived from the Russian () + ('); the full form is ('), meaning "under-ashed soil". The term was first given in mid-1875 by Vasily Dokuchaev, and over time adopted by soil science. It refers to the common experience of Russian peasants of plowing up an apparent under-layer of ash (leached or E horizon) during first plowing of a virgin soil of that type.